regardless of the truth of lennons statement it is fallacious to dismiss the content of a general proposition based on hypocrisy specific to the individual it may be true that lennons behavior may be reprehensible but it may simultaneously be true that woman is the nigger of the world broadly the fallacy is an example of a fallacy fallacy less broadly it is an example of a tu quoque fallacy either fallacy falls under the umbrella of ad hominem within the context of this argument